Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-20
WOMAN'S REALM.
BY MRS. l.. H. BLANK ASSOCIATE EDITOR
How They Voted in Kansas.

or that the fact of their handling the
ballot has tended in any way to degrade
the fair sex in the estimation of right
people. They went to the polls,
deposited their tickets and went away
about their business, without stopping
to loaf on the street corners or indulge
in heated arguments on the merits or
dement's of certain candidates. They
did not get drunk and create distur-
Dances, but quietly wendell their way
to their homes and resumed their ordi-
nary occupations, an example that
might well be followed by the lords of
creation. Their influence was exerted
for good, and the female element in
politics will always be found on the
side OF temperance, morality and good
Courier.
Ex-Empress Eugene talks of coming
to America.
A woman who knows enough to Gin
fluence" her husband to vote right, |
knows enough to vote right herself.
Miss Harriet Backer, artist painter,
is the first woman elected member of
an artistic jury to officiate at the exh:-
5ition of pictures in Bergen, the Sec
ond city Of Norway.-The Western
Rural.
Many California women cultivate
fruit farms, themselves doing much of
the work, picking, packing, raisin-mak
ing, and canning fruit. Crystallized
figs and apricots are the products of
woman's labor, as well as jellies, jams
and marmalade, which are sent all over
the world.
In recent address to graduates of
the Maryland faculty of physics, Col. FL.
Kyd Douglass said: GA young physi-
clans first prescription should be for
himself-a wife-to be taken immedl-
ately. Doctors must be sober and Sc
rious, and there is nothing so likely to
make them so as an early marriage"
| Miss Matilda johnson has just died
IN London, one hundred and sixteen
years old. Eighty-nine years ago her
intended husband died suddenly, and
she made will giving her entire for
tune to the Military Hospital; and di-
recting that Love killed her" should
be engraved on her tombstone.-The
. Western Rural.
Does not every man who is at all
conyersant with public affairs know
thai you are obliged to choose men fol
office with reference to those who are
to vote for them? If men were selected
whose election depended as much upon
the votes of women as upon the votes
of men, not one bad man would be put
up where there are fifty selected now
The voting of women would be the
sitting of men throughout the nation
Henry Ward Beecher.
What is there in depositing vote
that would subject a woman to such
peculiar exposure? A woman, in drop.
ping aletter into the post-office,ls made
more public, and is fully as indicate
as in depositing her vote. A vote is
! the simplest, the neatest, the most un.
obtrusive thing imaginable This white
slip Of paper drops as quietly and gent.
; ly as snowflake on the top of the
Alps; but like them, when, collected
= they descend like avalanches, woe be
) to the evil which they strike!-Henry
Ward Beecher.
A good answer to the assertion tina
, women take no interest in politics i:
: given in this reply Of Mrs. Lille Dew
: ereux Blake: A man said to her tina
women did not inform themselve
enough about politics tovote judicious
:. ly,-that his own daughter was intel
ligent, but could not tell him the nam
= of the congressman from her district
:, "What is the congressman's name fron
nv district? 2" inquired Mrs. Blake. 6
=. don't know, for l don't vote in you
| ElSlIlCu.. LII WuCtU OAOtA NV SiOSo y Wv
y daughter vote?" said Mrs. Blake.
j. It is not strange that when over
a. whelmed with argument and half Wol
;, by appeals to his better nature to con
cede to woman her equal power in tn
q. state, and ashamed to blankly refus
that which be finds no reason for long
er Withholding, man avoids the dllem
- ma by pretended elevation OF nj
- helpmeet to a higher sphere, where, a
=, - an angel, she has certain gauzy ethert
al resources and superior functions, ot
equations, and attributes which rende
! the possession of mere earthly every
- day powers and privileges non-essentla
to woman. however mere mortal me-
= themselves may find them indispensable
{ to their own freedom and happiness
But to the denial of her right to yot
whether that denial be the blunt re
L. fusal of the ignorant or the pollshe
!, evasion of the refined courtler an
politician, woman can oppose only ne